The joke was really funny, I wanted to show my face, but I ended up exposing my ass.

It's just that...... Liu Yu thought to himself, let you go over there, but not let you see jokes.

"Fourth brother, you don't just remember a joke, do you?"

"How so?!"

Dang Xuanming jumped up as if he had been stepped on a nail, and said repeatedly: "Don't talk nonsense. ”

"Of course, this joke has to be seen, but watching them fight is also the purpose of His Majesty sending us there this time. It's just that...... You know, it's hard to say. ”

"What can we say when we know that it is the French who are showing off their force? It's hard to say, your country really has a hand in fighting, and the firearms techniques of this army are terrifying? Isn't it the prestige of the fallen heavens? ”

"Qi Guogong said clearly, you can see it, but don't be surprised on your face, even if you are surprised in your heart, you must hide it in your heart and come back to remember it. In front of the French, there is no cowardice. ”

I went out and went around, just in time for the War of the Polish Succession, France, Russia, Austria and Poland were at war, and the main battlefield was on the Rhine.

Since the beginning of Marshal Vauban , France has had the "habit" of asking people to visit the siege battle, Philipsburg can be said to be the famous place of Marshal Vauban and the birthplace of the zigzag trench attack fortress method, it is estimated that the French are more familiar with this Plipsburg than Paris.

However, this time, the illegitimate son of King James II of England and the Duke of Berwick, the French marshal, was killed by the defenders during the siege of Philipsburg.

Dang Xuanming said in his heart, I can't be blamed for laughing, anyone has to laugh. Before leaving, the French boasted, who would have thought that this would be more interesting than watching a play?

If it was in the past, it would be a joke. But Liu Yu asked, and now Liu Yu is different from him who has no official status, although they are relatives, they are not good at this time.

"Hey...... It's hard to say. Normal, in fact, after we saw it, Qi Guogong was also deeply worried. I feel that the military formation of this Westerner is very different. So at that time, Qi Guogong also asked some of us if we were willing to stay. ”

"There are also a few who have the intention to serve His Majesty after completing their studies, so they stay there. We were stupid, and it was hard to learn this French alone, so we came back. ”

"When you ever wanted to arrive at Rakshasa, you heard that your Qingzhou army fought a good battle in the Western Regions, using a new formation. When the Selenga River was about to return, I heard that His Majesty was also carrying out military reform. At that time, I thought, those few left behind can be regarded as in vain. ”

Liu Yu also smiled slightly awkwardly, and understood that none of these people wanted to stay there.

Most of those who traveled with the mission were from the families of nobles, or the children of officials who were qualified to be shaded, and the people in that place were not familiar with the place, and life was far less comfortable than in the country.

The matter of the army, in fact, is just like that, and France's military thinking in the army at this time is not much to learn.

Liu Yu is very confident in this, he uses a set of tactical ideas born from the new code of conduct of the members of the People's Security Committee of the French Revolution, which will never be outdated before the popularization of rifled guns, and it is also very suitable for the situation around Dashun.

Artillery reform requires technology, and he also wants a light and powerful six-pounder gun, and abolish the eight-pounder and four-pounder guns, but now the technology is still poor, and this is not a purely hardware problem that can be solved by tactical thinking.

I thought that these people would go to Europe, observe it, and come back to facilitate the military reform.

But the battle of the Western Regions was too dazzling and more intuitive, and the emperor allowed the attempt at military reform, and the point of those remaining in France was not too great.

If you want to talk about building ships and navies, it is still worth learning.

Liu Yu asked tentatively: "Didn't you take the initiative to think about the navy?" ”

"There are a few of them. Qi Guogong left a few smart ones. Didn't I hear that the French mission came a while ago, and someone was sent here? ”

"Well, that's right. Qi Guogong is still very discerning. ”

Dang Xuanming smiled and said: "That's natural, otherwise Your Majesty wouldn't let him lead the team, could it be that he did it just to participate in the coronation of the Rakshasa Tsar?" He has the right to decide, who dares to disobey me? That is, I am stupid, but Seon is not blessed, so I don't need to stay there. ”

Liu Yu said in his heart, Fu? It's not a blessing at all, what can you do when you come back?

He didn't become a scholar, and he couldn't persuade him to learn such things anyway.

I wanted to know how these people felt when they went to Europe, so I asked, "Then you don't feel anything when you go around Europa?" ”

Dang Xuanming pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "Looking at the flowers, I don't feel much." I haven't seen anything that makes my jaw drop when I see it. ”

"Except for the military formation, I don't know anyone else, anyway, in my eyes, the Celestial Empire is superior everywhere, and Westerners are very bad. Oh, by the way, the Westerners are also very powerful, the battleships are huge, and the white sails are raised to cover the sky and the sun. But that's about it. ”

"Oh, yes. When I arrived in Paris, I learned that there were also Westerners playing the trick of returning to the cave on the streets of Westerners. ”

"Uh......" Liu Yu was quite speechless, and said in his heart, what are you going to see here?

But on second thought, it seems that there are no black chimneys everywhere in Europe now, which can make people feel the shock of earthlings seeing Trisolarans.

In addition to the military, it is this theorem and that theorem that really widen the gap, but these things are not intuitively felt.

Scientific differences are difficult to perceive, and cultural differences are not orthodox Confucianism, and it is difficult to break them down.

In terms of life, in absolute terms, France is slightly better. But how do these sons and nobles know the lives of the real people at the bottom?

According to the average salary, Britain at this time was four to five times that of Dashun, and France may be about the same, except for luxury goods such as tea silk, food is not expensive.

But these things, it is impossible to expect these people to see them.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu thought of Chen Zhen in the mission who had a conflict with him at the beginning, and asked, "What about that Chen Zhen?" ”

Dang Xuanming knew that Liu Yu and Chen Zhen had contradictions, but when he left, Liu Yu sent gold and silver and cotton clothes, and Dang Xuanming did not partner with Xungui's children to toss him.

"This man is left in France. There is a person in France, who seems to be called Voltaire, who is very interested in Confucius, we don't know much, but Chen Zhen does. As a result, it didn't take long for France to engage in a literary prison, saying that Voltaire's book 'attacked the imperial court, falsely praised the British, and doctrine was evil', but it was not caught. I all know that when I went to his concubine, the French court turned a blind eye, Chen Zhen stayed in Paris, and talked nonsense with those friends introduced by Voltaire all day long, and we don't know what to talk about. ”

Dang Xuanming naturally looked at France from the perspective of the Celestial Empire, and felt very familiar with France's literary prison.

There are people on the street who are playing the Three Immortals Returning to the Cave, and the court is engaged in a literary prison, and I can't help but feel that it is no wonder that France and the Celestial Empire came into contact much later than Britain and the Netherlands, but this relationship is naturally close.

Hearing that Chen Zhen did not come back this time, but was talking nonsense with Voltaire and others in Paris, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It is not necessarily a good thing that the people who are most likely to stand in the Confucian perspective and spew Western things have not come back, because it is difficult to say that they understand after watching the flowers, and understanding is the premise of spraying something in words, and I don't know if Chen Zhen has lived in Paris for a long time, and after watching it for a long time, he will have different ideas.

Speaking of Voltaire and his "concubine", Liu Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In fact, although France is located in Europe, the speed at which this idea spreads is not so fast.

Anyway, in my memory, when "The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" was written, Yu Yi, who had fought with Zheng Chenggong, was still alive; But it was only now that Voltaire's lover translated it into French, and Newton's doctrine was first circulated in French in France.

Just across the strait, it seems that the idea of starting a new stove instead of "learning from the east and going west" is correct.

It took nearly 60 years for France to learn from the West, and it took nearly 60 years for "Principles of Mathematics of Natural Philosophy" and nearly 30 years for the steam engine, which is still only separated by an English Channel.

At the very least, the book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", Liu Yu has a headache to read, and it is too obscure.

I feel that Dang Xuanming has too little life experience and insufficient cultural level after all, so he may not be able to see too many things.

But since he knows that the Westerners' military formations and navy are worth learning, this is enough, at least this group of people who have gone around Europe will firmly support military reform and the navy, and even tell the emperor more intuitively that the Westerners' fleets are indeed very strong and should be vigilant.

After asking again, Dang Xuanming didn't think there was much to be surprised about, but just talked about the lives of those nobles in France, but after all, he couldn't see much.

"You guys have been going back and forth, what do the rest of you think?"

"Hey, what can you think? Most of them are about the same as me. ”

As he spoke, Dang Xuanming smiled and clicked on the large pile of books and said, "There may be some things in such books, but we can't understand them." We can understand court etiquette, but it is ridiculously rudimentary; I thought I had learned something about the military formation, but I would have thought that when I came back, I would know that the Celestial Empire had undergone military reform; The rest of the great Confucianism, the way of heaven and earth, I can't speak French well, I will say a few stupid pigs, stupid donkeys, most of them are similar to me. ”

"As for the Rakshasa Kingdom, let alone that. was originally going to attend the coronation of little Peter, but when he went, his descendants were gone, but he watched a good show of Si Chen. Chaos and chaos, a mess, moving the capital and moving the capital again, Petersburg, Moscow, back and forth, there is nothing to see. ”

Speaking of this, Dang Xuanming couldn't help muttering: "Shouchang, I heard you often talk about Westerners, we thought that we would see all kinds of jaw dropping things after we went, but where are there many?" After going out, I felt that the word "Heavenly Dynasty" was more decent. ”

"Let's put it this way, I followed the Duke of Qi to visit some French nobles, and they entertained us with porcelain and silk...... To tell the truth, we have to treat us at home, and that kind of porcelain can't be served on the table, and we can't afford to lose that person. ”

Hearing this, Liu Yu could only laugh.

Dang Xuanming asked quietly, "Have you heard any news?" What is Your Majesty going to do with us people? ”

This is what these people who returned after following Qi Guogong from his visit are most worried about in their hearts. Many people were reluctant to leave at that time, thinking that even if they were a petty official, they would have to work hard for their qualifications in the court.

If you are enterprising, you can also follow you to the southwest, change the land and return to the rebellion, and make some contributions; Or take advantage of the opportunity of the imperial court to pacify the Western Regions and make a name for yourself.

It's just that some of these people don't want to eat and wait for death, and when they return to Moscow from Paris, their mentality is completely different from when they went.

There, they heard about the Celestial Empire's pacification of the Quasi-Ministry and the recapture of the Western Regions. Liu Yu's battle north of the Altai Mountains cut off many people's desire to take advantage of the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and crushed the dreams of many noble concubines who were eager to become famous.

I just thought that this trip would be a blessing in disguise, otherwise even if I stayed in the court, there would be no merit to take advantage of at that time, so it was better to go out for a spin.

But after turning around and thinking about it carefully, I saw the means of the Western military formation. However, Dashun has already started military reform, including Dang Xuanming, who is thinking about what to do when he comes back?

Liu Yu smiled: "I'm in Weihai all the year round now, you ask me?" Who goes, I ask? However, my uncle has returned from the southwest, and the news of the DPRK and China, can I know better than my uncle? ”

Dang Xuanming shook his head and said, "Huti, Huti." Your uncle is worried about me. Those who went with them, those who were ambitious, stayed in France and went to study at a military school. The next one also learned some French, Latin, and Rakshasa languages. I really didn't learn anything. According to the original rules, your uncle has made meritorious contributions in the southwest, and I want to be a half-official position. But now that the military reform is underway, we can only start from scratch and become a company commander the size of a sesame mung bean or something. What your uncle meant was to ask if it would be better to go to the Navy? ”

"The main thing is to ask what is good and lacking in the navy. I also know the risks at sea, and it's better not to get on board and manage the logistics. You don't need to come forward to do this, just ask if there are any good places to go, and you can have a number. ”